State of Being

“You're not separating only yourself from nature now, but constructing a human world and separating it from the rest of the world” (p.5)

The objective world Frye talks about is something that we are unable to relate or connect to because it lacks "human shape or a human meaning" pg3. Everyone is their own being and our beings result from the ways in which we construct them. We as beings grow homes which become our own worlds. Human interaction is what allows us to make our homes, our ideal states of being; we as humans need this. The objective world is not enough so we change it and build and build and we never stop building. Frye compares this to moving to a different level of human life.

This quote also depicts the isolation we experience because of our single identites as humans. This sort of isolation should have a positive meaning because it is what we grow on. Growth comes from human shape and human meaning, which is ultimately interaction. From this it is our home that grows which will in turn impacts other beings. We all start at the state of being and take different paths of growth from there.

We are separated because we have built our own worlds and we are what we build.